Posted on 02/10/2016 8:57:57 AM PST by C19fan
Everything, it seemed, was breaking Marco Rubio’s way.
Inside the Holiday Inn Express hotel, where Mr. Rubio and his top aides had camped out in a small conference room to prepare for last Saturday’s Republican debate, marathon practice sessions were interrupted, giddily, by word of new endorsements from former rivals and fawning phone calls from donors.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Will he bash the Voters or own it like Rubio did?
I’m no Rubio fan, but this article is just more MSM over-analysis and navel gazing.
They attribute his loss to one, not unreasonable comment about Obama made several times in a debate? Ridiculous. I happened to LIKE Rubio’s comment about Obama’s actions being planned an purposeful.
So now the NY Times is again telling us that criticizing Obama is off-limits for anyone wanting to succeed in the Republican race - utter BS. Don’t fall for it.
Everybody with half a brain knows that if the Democrat triggers his Talking Tina response in a Fall Debate, Rubio is toast. So if he is not a guaranteed winner, what is the reason for Marco Rubio?
yep
That even looks like Rubio...
Watching it unfold in real time with full context was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Christie eviscerated Rubio. It was brutal, a complete unmasking of a candidate who just wasn't ready for primetime. The full impact is not captured in the condensed news clips.
I don’t miss the underlying point of the NY Times article at all - be adamant in your criticism of Obama, and RINOs in your own party will attack you!
I'm with you, PGR. Rubio's point is valid and echoes Rush's speech at CPAC in February 2009 in which he said he wanted Obama to fail because succeeding would mean, well, the disaster we've lived over the past seven years. Too many on that stage, including Trump, continue to go down the incompetent Obama path. (That doesn't mean Trump wasn't right about the VA being incompetent, but it's part of Obama's deliberate destruction to appoint incompetents.)
What I wished for Rubio to do, even though I'm a Cruz supporter and don't trust Rubio on amnesty, were two things: (1) Explain why he was continuing to make the point even in the face of Christie's pounding, and (2) Call out that Jersey blob and shut him up for good by saying that his criticism of Obama is hollow considering Christie's arm-in-arm bromance pictures with Obama that we've all seen. Welcoming a President is one thing, looking like you're auditioning for Wuthering Heights is completely another.
The debate performance is just a convenient excuse.
It wasn't the message on Obama, which I've not heard any Republican - even establishment - criticize that. Rubio was his own undoing.
It’s not over yet. Rubio could have a Second Act coming soon.
They NY Times will magnify any inter-Republican spats and we all know that Christie was attacking Rubio over his repeated comments about Obama’s actions being fully planned and purposeful.
This article didn’t have any obvious thesis, except that Rubio failed because of his spat with Christie and “he was sweating a lot.”
I simply wouldn’t give NY Times any credence in an argument why you don’t like Rubio. There are certainly more valid reasons than anything the NY Times has to say.
Yep, Christie played blocking tackle and took out Rubio. The best thing he has done.
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Rubio could have a Second Act coming soon.
Rubio could have a Second Act coming soon.
Rubio could have a Second Act coming soon.
Rubio could have a Second Act coming soon.
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Yeah, he’ll probably try again for an amnesty to give the Democrats a permanent majority.
He’s the Memorizer Bunny, empty suit.
Marco Rubio is learning that life is uncertain. :-)
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